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'WE'RE NOT HIDG': GAY AND LBIAN RSIANS SAY A CULTURAL SHIFT IS UNRWAY
In December 2022, Rsia expand s existg “gay propaganda” law to exert ntrol over public discsns and narrativ surroundg non-heterosexual relatnships and inti. The European Court of Human Rights led 2017 that the 2013 law is discrimatory, promot homophobia and vlat the European Conventn on Human Rights. The urt found that the law “served no legimate public tert, ” rejectg suggtns that public bate on LGBT issu uld fluence children to bee homosexual, or that threatened public morals.
Homosexualy was crimalized Rsia 1993, but homophobia and discrimatn is still rife. Speakg before Put signed the bill to the law on Monday, Tanya Loksha, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch said: “The 2013 ‘gay propaganda’ law was an unabashed example of polil homophobia, and the new draft legislatn amplifi that broar and harsher ways. In 2013, the Kreml adopted the first legislatn rtrictg LGBTQ+ rights, known as the “gay propaganda” law that banned any public endorsement of “nontradnal sexual relatns” among mors.
It banned, quote, "propaganda of homosexualy and pedophilia among mors. And particularly where that base of support is close to relig views, there is a lot of crossover there that works for polil opportunists who are g official forms of homophobia to fe their polil That is Dan Healey, profsor of Rsian history at the Universy of Oxford. The young woman who only intified herself to Dimrov by the name Elena said that sce the latt passage of laws cludg expansn of the Rsia’s “gay propaganda” law to clu adults last December, upled wh the crackdown by the Rsian Feral Service for Supervisn of Communitns, Informatn Technology and Mass Media, abbreviated as Roskomnadzor, on any webs and on popular phone apps that ter to LGBTQ people, she has now begun efforts earnt to leave the untry.
GAY TIKTOK UPLE ARRTED RSIA
In addn, “we mt not fet that by changg the sex of one of the partners, a homosexual uple gets the right to adopt a child. While same-sex relatnships are Rsia, public exprsns of homosexualy are owned upon, backed up by anti-gay propaganda. Homophobic attacks have also creased sce the law was troduced 2013.
Dpe this, there’s a thrivg, if outwardly discreet gay scene St Petersburg and Mosw if you know where to look for .
Source: GettyDpe same-sex relatnships beg legal Rsia - homosexualy was legalised 1993 – and thrivg gay scen and, attus towards LGBTQI muni this nservative society n be nsirably hostile. A 2013 by the Pew Rearch Center found that only 16 percent of Rsians believed homosexualy should be accepted by society, while a by the Rsian Public Opn Rearch Center (VCIOM) the same year found a staggerg 42 percent believed “non tradnal sexualy” should be prosecuted, up om 19 percent the other extreme are disturbg that the Southern Rsian republic of Chechnya, gay men are beg taed, tortured and even killed ncentratn mps an effort to force them is illegal to promote "non-tradnal sexual relatns to mors"Richard Ayoa and iend Greg Davi wisely show no affectn Mosw. Source: SBSRsia’s anti-gay propaganda law bans the "promotn of non-tradnal sexual relatns to mors”.